Else Jerusalem — Red House Alley with Translator Stephanie Gorrell Ortega
Send us a textElse Jerusalem’s Red House Alley is a riveting exposé of the sex industry in fin-de-siècle Vienna. A bestseller upon its 1909 publication, the novel was banned by the Nazis in 1933 (along with its 1928 film adaptation) and fell into obscurity. Boiler House Press published the first full English translation of this landmark work last year, and translator Stephanie Gorrell Ortega joins us to discuss Jerusalem’s richly-drawn account of brothel workers (based on accounts from real prostitutes). We also draw comparisons with this year’s Academy Award-winning “Best Picture,” Anora. Mentioned in this episode:Red House Alley by Else JerusalemLife and photos of Else JerusalemAnoraThe Diary of a Lost Girl by Margarite BöhmeThe DIary of a Lost Girl filmYoung Vienna movementRebellion in the Brothel documentary about the Regina Riehl trialCelestina TruxaFelix SaltenHermann BahrArthur SchnitzlerKarl WittgensteinLudwig WittgensteinPretty BabyDavid CopperfieldLost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 106 on Dirty Helen CromwellLost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 197 on Helen Tracy Lowe PorterSupport the showFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comSubscribe to our substack newsletter. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
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Edna O'Brien — The Country Girls with Edan Lepucki
Send us a textWhen Edna O’Brien published her debut novel The Country Girls in 1960, she was branded a “Jezebel” in her native Ireland—but that didn’t stop her from completing a poignant trilogy about a pair of friends coming of age in a world for which village life and convent school failed to prepare them. Despite initial backlash to her sexually frank depiction of young women’s lives and desires, O’Brien’s writing brought her acclaim and celebrity status—Vanity Fair dubbed her “the playgirl of the western world.” Novelist Edan Lepucki joins us to discuss the trilogy’s timeless appeal and the complicated-but-endearing friendship of characters Kate Brady and Baba Brennan.Mentioned in this episode:The Country Girls trilogy by Edna O’BrienEdna O’Brien interview on BBC’s “World Book Club”Time’s Mouth by Edan LepuckiCalifornia by Edan LepuckiWoman No. 17 by Edan LepuckiMother’s Before by Edan LepuckiItalics Mine Substack by Edan LepuckiAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryLost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 35 on Maud Hart LovelaceMrs. Beeton’s Book of Household ManagementErnest GéblerLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry“Laverne & Shirley”Beaches filmThSupport the showFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comSubscribe to our substack newsletter. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
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Brigid Brophy — The King of a Rainy Country
Send us a textIf Brigid Brophy’s The King of a Rainy Country had a soundtrack, it might include the soft patter of rain on a garret window, jazz drifting from a smoky cafe, the hum of a Vespa on narrow cobblestone streets … and the obnoxious griping of a few dozen uncultured Americans! As the description suggests, Brophy’s 1956 novel has a little bit of everything — atmosphere, nostalgia and poignancy mixed with subversive wit and madcap antics. Kim and Amy play “tour guide” examining Brophy’s life and accomplishments, including this wonderfully quirky book, recently reissued by McNally Editions.Mentioned in this episode:McNally Editions The King of a Rainy Country by Brigid BrophyMarginalia article about Brigid Brophy and Iris Murdoch by Maria PopovaLost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 51 on Rosamond LehmannDusty Answer by Rosamond LehmannLost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 150 on Elizabeth SmartBy Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth SmartLost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 184 on Elizabeth Taylor Vs. Elizabeth TaylorBBC program “Take it Or Leave It”In Transit by Brigid BrophyHackenfeller’s Ape by Brigid BrophyThe Snowball by Brigid BrophyFifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without by Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey and ??The Crown Princess and Other Stories by Brigid Brophy“Spleen” by BeaudelaireDeath in Venice by Thomas Mann“As You Like It” by William ShakespeareSupport the showFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comSubscribe to our substack newsletter. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
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Jessie Redmon Fauset — Plum Bun with Bremond Berry MacDougall and Lisa Endo Cooper
Send us a textLangston Hughes called Jessie Redmon Fauset “the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance” with good reason. As literary editor at The Crisis magazine from 1919 until 1926, Fauset discovered and championed some of the most important Black writers of the early 20th century. Her own novels contributed to The New Negro Movement’s cultural examination of race, class and gender through the lens of women’s experiences. Fauset’s 1928 novel Plum Bun was republished this spring by Quite Literally Books, a new publishing venture that reissues books by American women authors. The founders, Bremond Berry MacDougall and Lisa Endo Cooper, join us to discuss their mission and take a closer look at Fauset’s life and work.Mentioned in this episode:Quite Literally BooksPlum Bun by Jessie Redmon FausetThe Pink House by Nelia GardnerThe Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield FisherLost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 9 on Dorothy Canfield FisherLost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 140 on Zora Neale HurstonPersephone BooksVirago BooksCita PressThe Crisis magazine“What is Racial Passing?” on PBS’s The Origin of Everything“The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance” by Veronica Chambers and Michelle May-CurryLangston HughesJean ToomerArna BontempsCountee CullenGwendolyn BennettW.E.B. DuboisCharles JohnsonAlain LockeRegina AndrewsThe Talented Tenth“The New Negro Movement”Harlem RhapsodSupport the showFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comSubscribe to our substack newsletter. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
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E.D.E.N. Southworth — The Hidden Hand with Rose Neal
Send us a textDastardly villains are no match for Capitola Black, the audacious heroine at the center of E.D.E.N. Southworth’s 1859 bestseller, The Hidden Hand. Readers so admired this literary tomboy’s pluck that Capitola became a popular baby name for decades and inspired the name of a California town. Yet few readers today are familiar with Southworth, one of the highest-earning authors of her day (to whom Louisa May Alcott even gave a subtle nod in Little Women). Rose Neal, author of a brand new biography on Southworth, joins us this week to discuss the writer who gave 19th-century young women permission to imagine lives free from convention and restraint.Mentioned in this episode:E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Hidden Hand: The Untold Story of America’s Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Author by Rose NealThe Hidden Hand by E.D.E.N. SouthworthThe Company of Books bookstore Retribution by E.D.E.N. SouthworthThe Deserted Wife by E.D.E.N. SouthworthHarriet Beecher StoweElizabeth BlackwellWide, Wide World by Susan WarnerTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Saturday VisitorThe National EraJohn Greenleaf WhittierJane SwisshelmThe Awakening by Kate ChopinSupport the showFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comSubscribe to our substack newsletter. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
A book podcast hosted by writing partners Amy Helmes and Kim Askew. Guests include biographers, journalists, authors, and cultural historians discussing lost classics by women writers. You can support Lost Ladies of Lit by visiting https://www.patreon.com/c/LostLadiesofLit339.
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